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Short title.

Director of

to have

power to erect lamp posts and affix lamps thereon.

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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to provide for the public lighting of the Colony and for the protection of the appliances used in connection therewith.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Lighting Ordinance, 1914.

2. It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works Public Works to cause a sufficient number of posts, standards and brackets for the lighting of the public or private streets, roads ways and thoroughfares in the Colony to be pro- vided, and to be set up, fixed or erected in all suitable situations for such lighting, and either in any of the said streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares or in any place adjacent thereto or upon or against the wall of any house or building or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as be may think proper; and it shall also be lawful for him to cause to be provided and put and affixed upon the said posts, standards and brackets such a number of lamps and of such sizes and sorts respectively as may be found requisite for the lighting of the said streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares respectively.

Property in lamp posts and lamps to be vested in Director of Public Works.

Penalty for damaging or interfering with lamp

3. The laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away or stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively shall be interpreted to apply to the removing, taking, carrying away or stealing of any of the posts, standards, brackets or lamps provided under this Ordinance; and the property of and in all or any of such posts, standards, brackets or lamps shall be deemed to be vested in the Director of Public Works for all the purposes of any proceedings civil or criminal in relation thereto.

4. Any person who wilfully injures, displaces or damages any of the posts, standards or brackets provided under this Ordinance or who wilfully extinguishes, obscures or interferes in any way with the light of any post or lamp lamp provided under this Ordinance shall on conviction thereof before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars in addition to the full amount of the damage and all incidental costs and expenses.

or light of lamp pro-

vided under this Ordi-

nance.

Apprehen- sion, without warrant, of offender. against section 3.

Compensa-

tion to be paid for damage other than wilful.

Procedure.

Saving of section 186

5. It shall be lawful for any person witnessing the commission of an offence against section 3 to seize the said offender and to deliver him to any constable or to a Magistrate; and no warrant shall be in any case necessary. to justify the apprehension of any such offender.

6. When any danger or injury has been occasioned to any of the posts, standards, brackets or lamps provided under this Ordinance by any person otherwise than wilfully and such person has not made satisfaction for the same, it shall be the duty of a Magistrate, on complaint thereof inade, to order and compel the said person to make full satisfaction for the amount of such damage or injury, together with all incidental costs and expenses.

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7. All proceedings before a Magistrate under this Ordinance, except as provided by section 4, shall be had, and the payment of all pecuniary penalties, costs and damages shall be enforced according to the law governing the summary jurisdiction of Magistrates.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed to affect any liability imposed by section 186 of the Public of Ordinance Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, upon the owners of the land fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street on land held under lease from the Crown on which build- ings front, adjoin or abut.

No. 1 of 1903.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1866.

9. The Victoria (Lighting) Ordinance, 1856, is hereby repealed.

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